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Variations of Robinson Crusoe |
 | | that has battered and nearly drowned him, Robinson Crusoe manages to drag himself ashore; and looking back at the hostile sea, he is at first carried away by joy at his good luck in escaping the fate of his shipmates. |
 | | Crusoe, too, is saved when the ship remains wedged among the rocks that had destroyed it -- for his tale, like Dante's, is also one of spiritual education and consequent spiritual deliverance. |
 | | In this new situation "mere ingenuity," such as had saved Crusoe, is useless, and "As Crusoe made his clothes, so he no less,/ Must labour to invent his nakedness." But memories and imagination cannot prevail, and when he and Crusoe visit the shore, Friday follows the prints made by an unshod foot into the surf. |
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